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With immigration courts facing a record backlog of 3.2 million cases, the demand for qualified immigration lawyers has never been greater. But a new analysis shows Houston’s immigration courts desperately need more lawyers to fill the void.
In Houston’s three immigration courts, about 29 percent of cases have legal representation as of December 2023, compared to nearly 57 percent five years ago, according to a recent report published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data research organization within Syracuse University. This is just below the national average of 30 percent but higher than the state average of 19 percent.
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